Chapter 11: Interdimensional Envelope

Chu Cheng returned to his room and used a paper knife to open the sealed package.

However, as he unpacked it and saw the green eye mask lying in front of him, identical to the one in the game, he fell into a momentary silence.

It wasn't an illusion; it was real.

He extended his slightly nervous hand and picked up the small eye mask. It was made of a material he had never seen before—icy cold and soft, with a touch that felt incredibly comfortable.

He tried putting on the eye mask. Somehow, without any visible mechanisms or fastenings, it adhered tightly to his skin.

Moreover, its size fit him perfectly, as if it had been tailor-made for him. Just as described in the game, wearing it didn't affect his field of vision or movements. If one wasn't paying attention, they might even overlook its presence.

Chu Cheng took off the eye mask and stared blankly at the empty, unpacked envelope.

Truly bizarre.

Just this exquisitely packaged parcel, without a sender's address or a recipient's address, no information whatsoever, practically dropped in the hallway outside his door almost instantly after he clicked the mouse to make the purchase on his computer.

What is this? Interdimensional express delivery, huh? Instant order, instant delivery?

This delivery efficiency is enough to make SF Express weep, and YTO Express remain silent. Look out, Speedy Delivery across the Multiverse.

But at least this proves one thing. This game can indeed affect the reality he is currently in.

Green Arrow.

His character design pays tribute to Robin Hood, with a focus on archery and proficiency in hand-to-hand combat. His archery skills are top-notch.

When it comes to Green Arrows equipment, his bow, arrows, and high-tech arrowheads are all useful in their own right, but Chu Cheng can't figure out what use a useless eye mask has.

However, although drawing Green Arrows eye mask this time doesn't seem to have any practical use, it makes him wonder if other superhero equipment has a chance of being delivered from this summoning system.

Including other equipment that is much more useful than an eye mask?

For example, Batman's Batarangs, grappling gun, and costume, Spider-Man's web shooters, or even Iron Man's armor?

If all of those could materialize in reality, they would directly translate into extraordinary powers that could be used in the real world!

Chu Cheng sat back in front of his computer, his expression becoming more complex as he watched the game running on the screen.

He entered the simulated training module once again.

But this time, Chu Cheng's mindset was different from before. If yesterday's tutorial was purely for the sake of completing the tutorial, today was purely for the sake of learning and training.

Familiarizing himself with the combat system, using stealth tactics, and mastering the use of various props—suddenly, these things were not just game techniques for Chu Cheng anymore. They represented real abilities, extraordinary powers that he needed to learn, master, and proficiently utilize.

Gaming had always been Chu Cheng's forte, and combined with the fact that he had never approached any game with such serious dedication before, his progress in gaming skills was soaring throughout the day.

He discovered that the game's control details, although more challenging than the previous Batman series, were even more superior in terms of performance once he became familiar with them. Once sufficiently skilled, players could almost embody Batman himself through the medium of keyboard and mouse.

A day passed within the simulation, and night finally fell.

Selecting Batman in the hero selection interface, he went into action directly.

After a brief moment of black screen, the scene lit up again, and Batman had already landed in the city under the cover of darkness. He crouched between the brightly lit urban landscape, his cape undulating in the moonlight.

Chu Cheng immediately recognized it as the area opposite the Klein Group building where he had logged off last night.

He controlled Batman to walk to the edge of a rooftop, adjusting the mouse to a bird's-eye view. He could even see the caution tape stretched out at the base of the building, along with the personnel standing guard beside it.

From this angle, he could even imagine from which direction and angle the photo he had seen in the online forum had been taken during the daytime.

Upon logging in, the game first reminded him that the tutorial and the initial missions had been completed. The map function was now unlocked and available for the player to freely explore the city as Batman.

Chu Cheng pressed the "M" key on the keyboard, and the screen immediately displayed the city map, which astonishingly turned out to be the map of Jiangdu, where Chu Cheng resided.

He used the mouse to move the perspective on the map and even found his current location on the map.

A thought suddenly occurred to Chu Cheng.

Could he find himself in this game?

Although this city shared the same name, Jiangdu, as the city he lived in before his transmigration, it wasn't entirely the same. Some streets and areas were identical to the Jiangdu of his previous life (including the area where his uncle's house was located), but there were also many differences.

Not to mention, this current Jiangdu was more than three times larger in size than the city Chu Cheng knew from his previous life.

And as mentioned earlier, there was no concept of national borders on the Polar star. Any city could potentially be home to people from various countries and regions of the original Earth, although within the same city, people would naturally form different social circles based on their ethnicities and lifestyle habits.

Chu Cheng, being directionally challenged, reminisced about his past experiences while live streaming Dark Souls. He would often be mocked by the barrage of comments, saying that the biggest obstacle to someone spreading the bonfire was not being clumsy, but rather getting lost.

It's said that all roads lead to Rome, but for him, it didn't exist. He only saw every road as a maze. While the world might have directions like east, south, west, and north for some people, for him, they didn't exist. He only recognized the concepts of forward, backward, left, and right.

Fortunately, this game was user-friendly and provided a traditional foolproof navigation feature. He could set coordinates on the map, and as long as he wasn't blind, it would guide him to his destination.

Chu Cheng marked the coordinates on the map. Then he exited the map, and a small circular bat symbol appeared on the screen, providing real-time navigation reminders of the direction towards the target.

Batman's grappling gun could withstand a load of over 500 kilograms, and the cape behind him wasn't just for show. It was made of a fabric-like material in its ordinary state but could solidify into a glider when electrified, assisting him in gliding through the urban jungle.

The combination of these two pieces of equipment made him move effortlessly through the concrete and steel. Even through the screen, Chu Cheng could almost feel the exhilaration of scaling rooftops and running on walls.

Especially when the in-game Batman arrived in areas familiar to Chu Cheng, leaping over his school, the streets he strolled through, and the commercial districts he visited, he couldn't help but feel a growing sense of unreality.

He made sure to avoid unnecessary attention and surveillance cameras during his traversal. Batman's stealth-enhancing dark combat suit made it much easier to remain hidden. Coupled with the augmented reality detective mode and the high-tech decoder that could infiltrate any surveillance camera, avoiding detection was not difficult.

As the in-game Batman approached the navigation point, Chu Cheng noticed his heartbeat gradually accelerating. He wasn't sure if he was mentally prepared for what he was about to see.

Finally, as the grappling hook shot out, Batman soared into the air and glided with his cape, landing on the rooftop of a residential building. Chu Cheng activated the detective mode by pressing the X key, and the screen transitioned to a first-person perspective inside Batman's helmet. With the movement of his mouse, the screen quickly zoomed in and locked onto a brightly lit window of the opposite building.

In the highly magnified view of the detective mode, Chu Cheng saw himself through that window. It was his own room.

Chu Cheng stood up from his chair, walked to the window, and gazed across at the rooftop.

And there he saw it, the Dark Knight standing tall beneath the moonlight, his cape billowing in the night breeze like a flag unfurled.